Conference Program

ENMESHED: ARCHITECTURE AND TEXTILES IN CONTEMPORARY DESIGN PRACTICE

September 24-25, Konstfack/University College of Art, Crafts and Design, Stockholm

Friday, September 24

            2:30      Opening remarks

3:00     Keynote Address

            Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, New York

Petrified Curtains, Animated Architextiles

4:00     Petra Blaisse, Inside Outside, Amsterdam

            Lecture: Shifting Position

Film Screening:  “Movements Continued, Shifted Room: A Portrait of the work of Petra Blaisse/Inside Outside”

Saturday, 25 September

            9:30     Coffee

Session I: Pliable Planes

10:00    Sylvie Krüger,  Munich

            Textile Architecture   

10:30   Ulrika Mårtensson, Stockholm

            Textile: More than Two Dimensions/Textile: a Multi-dimensional Love Story

11:00   Discussion

           12:00 Lunch Break

Session II: Smart & Soft

2:00     Rachel Wingfield, Loop.pH, London

            ArchiLace:  Ecomimetic Space Design

2:30     Patricia Gruits, Kennedy & Violich, Boston

            Going SOFT

3:00     Discussion

Session III: Binary Structures

3:30     David Serero, Serero Architectes, Paris
            Context

           

4:00     Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, CITA, Copenhagen

            Textiles as a transformative media
 

4:30     Discussion and concluding remarks